Oberwolfach Reports: Recent submissions

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    • 0646a - Mathematical Theory of Water Waves 

      [OWR-2006-50] Workshop Report 2006,50 (2006) - (12 Nov - 18 Nov 2006)
      The water-wave problem is the study of the two- and threedimensional irrotational flow of a perfect fluid bounded above by a free surface subject to the forces of gravity and surface tension. It is a paradigm for most ...

    • 0645 - Qualitative Assumptions and Regularization in High-Dimensional Statistics 

      [OWR-2006-49] Workshop Report 2006,49 (2006) - (05 Nov - 11 Nov 2006)
      Important and exciting developments are currently underway in nonparametric statistics involving inter-play between qualitative constraints, penalization, and regularization methods. Some of these developments are taking ...

    • 0644 - Combinatorics, Probability and Computing 

      [OWR-2006-48] Workshop Report 2006,48 (2006) - (29 Oct - 04 Nov 2006)
      One of the exciting phenomena in mathematics in recent years has been the widespread and surprisingly effective use of probabilistic methods in diverse areas. The probabilistic point of view has turned out to be

    • 0643 - Mathematical and Numerical Aspects of Quantum Chemistry Problems 

      [OWR-2006-47] Workshop Report 2006,47 (2006) - (22 Oct - 28 Oct 2006)
      This workshop was aimed at strengthtening the interactions between well established experts in quantum chemistry, mathematical analysis, numerical analysis and computational metodology. Most of the mathematicians present ...

    • 0641 - Arbeitsgemeinschaft mit aktuellem Thema: Twisted K-Theory 

      [OWR-2006-46] Workshop Report 2006,46 (2006) - (08 Oct - 14 Oct 2006)
      The “Arbeitsgemeinsschaft mit aktuellem Thema ‘Twisted K-Theory’ ” gave an introduction to several aspects of twisted K-theory. It started with a couple of different definitions of twisted K-theory, suitable in situations ...

    • 0640 - Geometrie 

      [OWR-2006-45] Workshop Report 2006,45 (2006) - (01 Oct - 07 Oct 2006)
      The program covered a wide range of new developments in geometry. To name some of them, we mention the topics “Metric space geometry in the style of Alexandrov/Gromov”, “Polyhedra with prescribed metric”, “Willmore surfaces”, ...

    • 0639 - PDE and Materials 

      [OWR-2006-44] Workshop Report 2006,44 (2006) - (24 Sep - 30 Sep 2006)
      This meeting brought together a carefully selected group of mathematicians, physicists, material scientists and engineers to discuss and review the impact of modern mathematical methods on the understanding of material ...

    • 0638 - Topologie 

      [OWR-2006-43] Workshop Report 2006,43 (2006) - (17 Sep - 23 Sep 2006)
      The participants in this conference covered all areas of algebraic and geometric topology. The talks covered a wide range of recent developments, such as the Farrell-Jones conjecture, knot theory, geometric group theory, ...

    • 0637 - Singularities 

      [OWR-2006-42] Workshop Report 2006,42 (2006) - (10 Sep - 16 Sep 2006)
      This is the report of the Oberwolfach Workshop on singularity theory held in september 2006. Singularity theory is concerned with the local structure of maps and spaces that occur in many situations in mathematics. It uses ...

    • 0636 - Spatial Random Processes and Statistical Mechanics 

      [OWR-2006-41] Workshop Report 2006,41 (2006) - (03 Sep - 09 Sep 2006)
      The workshop focused on the broad area of spatial random processes and their connection to statistical mechanics. The subjects of interest included random walk in random environment, interacting random walks, polymer models, ...

    • 0635 - Komplexe Analysis 

      [OWR-2006-40] Workshop Report 2006,40 (2006) - (27 Aug - 02 Sep 2006)
      The main aim of this workshop was to discuss recent developments in several complex variables and complex geometry. The topics included: classification of higher dimensional varieties, mirror symmetry, hyperbolicity, Kähler ...

    • 0634 - Mathematical Theory and Modelling in Atmosphere-Ocean Science 

      [OWR-2006-39] Workshop Report 2006,39 (2006) - (20 Aug - 26 Aug 2006)
      Mathematical theory and modelling in atmosphere-ocean science combines a broad range of advanced mathematical and numerical techniques and research directions. This includes the asymptotic analysis of multiscale systems, ...

    • 0633c - Mini-Workshop: Anisotropic Motion Laws 

      [OWR-2006-38] Workshop Report 2006,38 (2006) - (13 Aug - 19 Aug 2006)
      Anisotropic motion laws play a key role in many applications ranging from materials science, biophysics to image processing. All these highly diversified disciplines have made it necessary to develop common mathematical ...

    • 0633a - Mini-Workshop: The Hauptvermutung for High-Dimensional Manifolds 

      [OWR-2006-36] Workshop Report 2006,36 (2006) - (13 Aug - 19 Aug 2006)
      The meeting was devoted to the Kirby-Siebenmann structure theory for high-dimensional topological manifolds and the related disproof of the Hauptvermutung. We found nothing fundamentally wrong with the original work of ...

    • 0633b - Mini-Workshop: Hypercyclicity and Linear Chaos 

      [OWR-2006-37] Workshop Report 2006,37 (2006) - (13 Aug - 19 Aug 2006)
      The mini-workshop was devoted to the study of hypercyclic and chaotic operators within the wider framework of linear dynamical systems. Topics discussed included common hypercyclic vectors; hypercyclic and supercyclic ...

    • 0632 - Four-dimensional Manifolds 

      [OWR-2006-35] Workshop Report 2006,35 (2006) - (06 Aug - 12 Aug 2006)
      This workshop has provided a broad panorama of recent developments in the study of topological, smooth, and symplectic 4-manifolds. Related invariants of knots and 3-manifolds were also discussed.

    • 0631 - Mathematical Methods in Tomography 

      [OWR-2006-34] Workshop Report 2006,34 (2006) - (30 Jul - 05 Aug 2006)
      This is the seventh Oberwolfach conference on the mathematics of tomography, the first one taking place in 1980. Tomography is the most popular of a series of medical and scientific imaging techniques that have been developed ...

    • 0630 - Geometric Group Theory, Hyperbolic Dynamics and Symplectic Geometry 

      [OWR-2006-33] Workshop Report 2006,33 (2006) - (23 Jul - 29 Jul 2006)
      Geometric Group theory, Hyperbolic Dynamics and Symplectic Geometry are young and rapidly developing fields of mathematics. The scientific goal of the workshop was twofold: first, to present some recent breakthroughs, and, ...

    • 0629 - Algebraic K-Theory 

      [OWR-2006-32] Workshop Report 2006,32 (2006) - (16 Jul - 22 Jul 2006)
      This is the report on the Oberwolfach workshop Algebraic K-Theory, held in July 2006. The talks covered mainly topics from Algebraic Geometry and Number Theory in connection with K-Theory. Special emphasis was placed on ...

    • 0628 - Calculus of Variations 

      [OWR-2006-31] Workshop Report 2006,31 (2006) - (09 Jul - 15 Jul 2006)
      Research in the Calculus of Variations has always been motivated by questions generated within the field itself as well as by problems arising in other areas of Mathematics, and applied sciences. The purpose of this meeting ...